This month’s Mini Ludum Dare is a special one: it’s the Mini LD #42, and it’s also being held on the weekend of May 25th (Towel Day). Thus, we’re celebrating with a tribute to Douglas Adams!

The theme for this month is “Earth will be Destroyed“. I believe there might be people unfamiliar to the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series, so I decided for a more broad theme. In any case, you’re encouraged to create something inspired by Douglas Adams’ work (or don’t, feel free to do whatever you want =P). As usual, everything goes!

The de facto period for the jam is May 24-26 12:00 AM UTC, but you can start before if you want to, and submissions will be open until the end of the month, in case you need some extra time.

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I’m not sure how I feel about the theme, since I really don’t have any good ideas for it.
I will maybe, probably, um… well, okay. I’ll try again. I will.
You can expect something that has little to nothing to do with the theme, but LegacyCrono said to feel free to do whatever we want, so I’LL DO WHATEVER I WANT!!
Yeah…
I think that will be a good excuse to take a break from my current project, which has stalled.

Dammit, I don’t have time for this amid all my other projects… but right now, an idea is knocking pretty hard. It’s even a comedy, though it has more in common with The Venture Brothers than Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

Get ready for a big turd!
I wasn’t sure to do this MiniLD, but I’ll give it a try. I plan to contribute to this LD by making a horrible game, so that people who don’t do so well can feel better than there are some entries below them ;-P
Don’t get me wrong, I won’t do bad on purpose, but let’s face the fact:
#1- I’m juggling many projects at the same time (Fishing Jam, + 4 other game projects), so I can spend at most one night on this.
#2- I’m not familiar with Douglas Adams
#3 – I didn’t read the guide
#4- I watched that movie with Zooey Deschanel, and I didn’t get it at all. I mean, I understood the plot, but I didn’t get the humour at all. Sorry ;-/
#5- Regardless of all of this, I’ll make something related to Hitchhiker’s guide to Galaxy, rather than just “Earth will be destroyed”, because I’m curious to see what game can result, from the perspective of someone who didn’t get anything about the theme. ;-P

I started on my entry tonight. It doesn’t sound like this is bound to the 48 hour rule of the regular LD, so I’ll probably use the extra time to polish it a bit. I’m really liking my concept so far, which I don’t believe has been done before and fits the theme well. I don’t know anything about copyright law in Adams’ home country of the UK, but here in the US copyrights are good for 70 years after the author’s death, so I’m not referencing HHGttG too much in my game to avoid any possible issues. However, I’m sure I’ll throw in a easter egg or two.

Alright, so the keys still work, I guess I’ll upload something tomorrow… or the day after… I’ll have something to upload by the end of the week at least, i promise… well, i think I will… anyway… who cares ?!? Pffffffft !!!

Phew! Submitted game in time! I had a flash of inspiration on Sunday at 6pm, so I just had to work on the code whenever I had a spare moment during the week. It’s worked out OK, although a brief play-testing session at the office yesterday lunchtime did reveal a few problems (hopefully solved) and led to a number of ideas for improvements.